THE PRESENCE OF COPS

Before 2016 arrives tonight,

A whole lot of NYC cops have important jobs to do!

You can see it right now in... The Presence Of Cops!

RLJ

THE PRESENCE OF COPS 

(New York City, New York)

The police presence is ultra heavy on this particular New Year's Night in the Big Apple!

They number in the thousands as they stand guard over the rights of the people to enjoy the night!

Will the police numbers overwhelm the evil will of a few cowardly religious idiots who fetishize death?

The countdown to horror zero has begun... come on, cops, you can protect us from the last few horrors of 2015!

RLJ

THEY PICKED THE WRONG YARD TO LAND IN

Robert Stanley loaded up his hunting gear and,

With his big gun in hand,

He headed into the dark forest.

Those damn things killed some of his best animals.

He was pissed and ready to shoot something dead.

He kept mumbling to himself in a trance-like fashion...

They Picked The Wrong Yard To Land In!

RES

THEY PICKED THE WRONG YARD TO LAND IN

(Bryson City, North Carolina)

Outer space aliens landed their spaceship down in my backyard last night!

They ate Rover, two of my horses, two cows and tried to eat the chickens!

I watch the horror commotion from my bedroom window as I loaded the shotguns.

I killed two of them, but the third one escaped... and to whoever reads this note, they fucked with the wrong hunter when they ate my dog!

RES

ALLOPURINOL, SWEET ALLOPURINOL

What in the heck hit me during that night before the diagnosis?

A disease condition striking me down in the middle of the night?

What the hell?

And now my doctor tells me to get used to these three words...

Allopurinol, Sweet Allopurinol!

TGN

ALLOPURINOL, SWEET ALLOPURINOL

(Manhattan, New York City)

I'm Tan Nguyen and I screamed out loud at the intense, sharp needle, broken glass pain in my left foot!

When I pushed back the blanket that morning and gently removed my now tight sock, I saw a horrific sight!

My foot was so swollen it was a grotesque sight out of a horror movie ... ugly and purple... and oh, the pain!

Later, Dr. Mason told me I have gout... and would forever be beholden to Allopurinol... now, that is is a horrible way to start a week!

TGN

ONE DEAD MOUSE

Betty Jones,

Completely angry, freaked-out... and horrified,

Will have to wait two more days before the backlogged exterminators can come to her apartment.

There might be things on the floor she could step on in the dark.

All this cosmic horror over... One Dead Mouse!

RLJ

ONE DEAD MOUSE

(Fayetteville, North Carolina)

Betty Jones never would have believed she had a mouse in her house... until she stepped on it!

It was the middle of the night and she walked, bare feet, into the kitchen for a bottle of water.

She crunched something underneath her left foot... and screamed when she turned on the lights.

Two midnights later, she is terrified in her bed... whey in the hell did her brother tell her that if you see one mouse there might be 50 more!

RLJ

THE FIRST TIME I DIED

It is time for Arliss Lawrence to die.

The cancer has nearly eaten him alive.

The doctor has already administered the drugs to him.

Now, all there is for Arliss to do is talk to himself and wait for...

The First Time I Died!

ARL

THE FIRST TIME I DIED

(Yakima, Washington)

You asked me why I'm afraid... I'm afraid because I've never died before.

How am I really suppose to know what happens to me when my heart stops beating?

The most frightening thing is... all of this goddamn religion drilled into my head over a lifetime!

I'm drawing my last few breaths here... thinking about... really, just where is this heaven and this hell?

ARL

FROM HERE TO THERE

Christmas time has passed!

The kids are all tucked away with their things!

The horror... it never goes away... is still lurking out there!

Might as well go back to it in the form of a little serial killer ditty called...

From Here To There!

RLJ

FROM HERE TO THERE

(South Windsor, Connecticut)

The crimson blood dripped off the carving knife like thick molasses drops off a spoon.

Though the blood is not as sweet and enticing as the caramelized sugar... it did look enticing.

The deranged serial killer decided, for the first time, to take a long lick of the knife blade.

The glazed orgasm washing over her face tells all there is to know... she now has more reason to murder!

MPM

PEACE IN THE SMITH HOUSEHOLD

Five kids, 

All under the age of ten years old,

Can be a nightmare when they are all unhappy throughout 2015 at the same time.

Will 2016 find... Peace In The Smith Household?

RLJ

PEACE IN THE SMITH HOUSEHOLD

(Wilmington, North Carolina)

Well, in the Smith household, Christmas 2015 went by without a hitch... so thought the parents.

The children were pretty satisfied with the toys and clothing they found under the tree this year.

The boys wanted anything Star Wars related... and the girls, actually, desired what the boys wanted.

Last years gift folly is forgotten... and Santa has avoided having to deal with these five angry children throughout 2016!

RLJ

SANTA DOES NOT WORK ALONE

Naughty children actually believe they can outsmart Santa.

Untold numbers of them believe they can stay awake to catch Santa in the act.

Little do they know that Santa has a secret weapon at his disposal, because...

Santa Does Not Work Alone!

SSC

SANTA DOES NOT WORK ALONE

(Planet Earth)

Twas the night before Christmas 2015... and all through the night many little ones fitfully slept.

The awake children, for various reasons, were so... but a few of them have malice on their minds.

The naughty ones know they have been thusly, and so, what do they have to lose in staying awake?

They want to be the bad kids who catch Santa in the act... but, little do they know that Santa works side by side with the Sandman!

SSC

BUSH FIRE

Senator Edward Marion is staring at the TV screen on the wall of his office.
CNN has just relayed devastating news to the watching audience.
He know this day was coming, but not this soon.
All the tough talk in the Senate and the House means nothing to people who hate each other.
And now,
One country has decided to light the world on fire by starting a world wide nuclear...
Bush Fire!

RLJ

BUSH FIRE (AN EXCERPT)

(Washington, DC)

...So, this is what the beginning of the end of life on planet earth looks like... WOW! 

It all happened so suddenly, yet obviously the breaking point had been building for decades.
Winters like summers, summers hotter than last summer and complete human homicidal psychosis! 

The end of life as we the people of planet earth know it... and Pakistan just fired its arsenal of nukes toward Russia!...

EML

THE MEALS THAT DELIVERED THEMSELVES

So, the two of you are thieves.

You are going to commit breaking and entering in that house.

Little do you know that, 

To your impending horror,

You are about to be... The Meals That Delivered Themselves!

CMN

THE MEALS THAT DELIVERED THEMSELVES

(Akron, Ohio)

Marty Pastor and Albert Zann picked the wrong house on the wrong block to break into tonight.

Unfortunately for them, they had spent two weeks casing this house during the daylight hours.

How could they know that Aditi Kapur just opened her coffin to step out into the night for the blood hunt.

Her supernatural senses instantly alerted to the two uninvited meals in her house... she smiled because she did not really want to go out tonight anyway.

CMN

I AM NOT UNIQUE, YOU KNOW

(An excerpt of the frank, 

Intense and frightening discussion between David and Sandrine... 

13 years ago!)

...Just one horrific caveat must be met for our continued happiness, David.

You only have to do it for me once a year.

I realize the pressure feels like it is all on your shoulders, but remember...

I Am Not Unique, You Know!

SYB

I AM NOT UNIQUE, YOU KNOW

(Fargo, North Dakota)

Honey, I'm not the only one of the human-like beings like me in existence on this planet.

There is an entire race of ancient people like me who are immortal and can perform miracles.

We are spread out across the globe, now, and some of us get lonely... like me loving you.

I know, you're horrified by the fact that I must bathe in the blood of a virgin once a year... but, other than that, aren't we a happy couple?

SYB

NO SLEEP WITHOUT THE SNOW

They are huge!

They are feral beasts!

They are desperate!

And, they are dangerous!

Especially when they have had... No Sleep Without The Snow!

RLJ

NO SLEEP WITHOUT THE SNOW

(Eagle River, Alaska)

"Hey Charlie," came the agitated female call from the kitchen. "Grab the shotgun!"

Charlie rushed in where his wife was with loaded gun pointing toward the floor.

Anna pointed out the window... down the road... at the six full sized grizzly bears coming their way.

"Damned global warming," cursed Anna. "And, damned hungry bears... its going to be a long winter!"

RLJ

DEATH ITSELF (AN EXCERPT)

Mary Gauge is standing at the open door to her house with her mouth wide open in shock.

Her husband, murdered a month ago, is standing on the other side of the jamb looking back at her.

He is wearing the same clothing she buried him... and he is as clean and sharp as he was when buried.

And, the bullet hole between his eyes is still there, too.

And then he spoke to her and he sounded like... Death Itself!

RLJ

DEATH ITSELF  (AN EXCERPT)

(Nothing, Arizona)

One more warning, before you touch me again... if you hug me again you will lose your beautiful soul.

I died, now I'm back, and I'm damned to take all 100 people back to hell with me before I'm dragged back.

I know not why, but Satan itself recruited me to perform this horrible task and I will never find peace until I finish.

I needed to see you one last time, Mary, to ask for your prayers for my damned soul before you leave town... before I become... death itself!

AMN

TESSIE MARTIN ONE YEAR LATER

In just a few days, Santa Claus will find out all about...

Tessie Martin, One Year Later!

SRM

TESSIE MARTIN ONE YEAR LATER

(Billings, Montana)

Last year, on Christmas day, 10 year old Tessie Martin was filled with anger!

She perused the presents under the tree and did not find the new Waikiki Beach doll she coveted.

She blamed Santa and has spent the last year plotting to catch him when he comes this year.

She has practiced staying up all night long... and, woe be to Santa if he lets her down this year!

SRM

WHAT I BELIEVED AS A CHILD IS NOT WHAT I BELIEVE AS AN ADULT

(For your information, day by day, this is the 561st horror story in this horror blog... and there are many more of these short horror tales to come in future days!)

RLJ

Seth ends his own life tomorrow.

There is a lifetime of living that has led up to this decision.

He has prepared for this day since childhood.

He is ready to do what it takes to end it all.

But, he has one regret about his decision.

That is... What I Believed as A Child Is Not What I Believe As An Adult!

SEJ

WHAT I BELIEVED AS A CHILD IS NOT WHAT I BELIEVE AS AN ADULT

(Pearl City, Hawaii)

This is my final entry into my life long diary... the diary of Seth Jones... my life chronicle for 62 years.

There are 66 volumes of my diary, each representing one year since the age of 8 years old.

I decided, back then, that when I turned 70 years old I would drink strychnine and go to meet God.

Life has been hard... and I am done... and I have my poison on the counter... it's just too goddamn bad for me that there is no God to meet!

SEJ

BAKING IN THE SUNSHINE (AN EXCERPT)

Alana Jones moved way out here in the desert to escape the craziness of the city.

All year dry air, sunshine everyday and less noise drew her here.

But much like her life in Los Angles,

Trouble follows her everywhere she goes.

She just found it again... Baking In The Sunshine!

AOG

BAKING IN THE SUNSHINE  (AN EXCERPT)

(Buckeye, Arizona)

The high hot sunshine mostly always beams down hard in this part of the Arizona desert!

The dry air preserves all of the desert secrets, as long as man does not meddle with them.

Obviously, man put many of those secrets there... from as far back as Native Tribal times.

Interrupting her hike, Alana Jones has discovered one such secret... a skeletal hand poking through the secretive sand... and she recognizes the ring on the ring finger!

AOG

WHAT CANNOT BE SCRUBBED OFF

Every human being on the planet lives with microscopic mites on their bodies!

These mites are an invisible part of the life of everyone.

Most people do not think about it, even when they know.

A few people, though, are driven insane by...

What Cannot Be Scrubbed Off!

AMN

WHAT CANNOT BE SCRUBBED OFF

(Temple, Texas)

Dr. Jackson Harper has just finished reading an online medical article that has depressed him.

The article offers the explanation of the pathologically self-damaging behavior of one of his clinically insane patients.

Jeb Marx, permanently confined in a strait jacket inside a padded cell, is mentally broken and terrified of the body mites on his face.

If allowed, he will rip what is left of the flesh off his facial bones... screaming at the Demodex Folliculorum to "Get the fuck off my face!"

AMN

HAUNTED AGAIN

Allen Masteel fights a quiet war every midnight.

The battles take place in his bedroom.

Oh, he is confident that he will win this war...

Even though his adversary died 84 years ago.

ALM

HAUNTED AGAIN

(Normal, Illinois)

I'm wide awake now... standing in my bathroom, over the sink, splashing cold water on my face!

I've just survived another fever nightmare night of dreams infused into my mind by the ghost in my room!

I'm not leaving my goddamn apartment... I pay the rent here... and I will not allow it to scare me off!

One us us will capitulate... and it will not be me... it died once... can't it just die again and take residence anywhere else but here?

ALM

TWO PILLS EACH TO OPEN THEIR EYES

Cassie Franks has had enough of Salt Lake City!

She has had enough of Utah!

And, she has had enough of cult-like religion!

She is out of this state tomorrow!

But tonight, she sleeps and dreams about...

If only she had Two Pills Each To Open Their Eyes!

RMS

TWO PILLS EACH TO OPEN THEIR EYES

(Salt Lake City, Utah)

If only I could invent a blue pill that would make them all forget that bullshit, I would!

I would force every last one of them to swallow two of them with a shot of Vodka!

I would reprogram each and every one of them to be repulsed by the very thought of religion!

The bible, the quran, the book of mormon, dianetics and the rest... now blankless pages of horror fiction to the eyes of my pill swallowers!

RMS

FALLOUT

This ain't no video game,

This... Fallout!

FKK

FALLOUT

(Homs, Syria)

The atomic bombs dropped, the radiation spread and the dead enemies fried in the glazed sand!

The innocent ones, caught in the miles wide blast radius, never had a chance, too!

"The ends justifies the means," is the mantra of the denizens of the countries dropping the bombs.

Tell that to the people caught in the atomic storm fallout spreading across countries downwind!

FKK

THE SHIVERS

There MUST be dire consequences if one cheats the Grim Reaper!

For Montel Manners, that caveat is...

The Shivers!

ELL

THE SHIVERS

(Sterling, Virginia)

Holy hell... I've got to find a place to warm my racked-with-the-shakes body!

The cold of the weather affects me so hard that I might become incapacitated!

I can't explain it... I don't know what the hell it is... but, when it happens, I cannot get warm!

I'm under three blankets and a quilt... the heater is on high... I'm still shaking... damn it, I wish I were dead again!

ELL

LIKE THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD IS ON ITS SHOULDERS

For those of you who believe in a deity,
How much longer can said deity take the madness.
The planet you say it created is on the brink of immolation!
And the culprits make worse threats every day.
This deity,
It must feel Like The Weight Of The World Is On Its Shoulders!

JHC

LIKE THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD IS ON ITS SHOULDERS

(On a plane of existence not of this earth) 

My father told me: Don't you worry your tired mind a moment longer, my eternity long suffering son.
Today is the day I have decided to take the reigns of the planet earth from your hands.
Obviously, you cannot manage the scourge razing the surface -- the humans -- and so, I will!
Tomorrow, at high noon somewhere on the planet, the crazy times of Caligula-like insanity ends on a world wide shattering scale!

JHC

THE FACE OF THE BUGBEAR

Another young child who cannot fall asleep tonight...
Because there is a monster in her bedroom with her...
Introduced to her by her mother's stupid fairy tales...
Now she has to stare into the Face Of The Bugbear!

ESM

THE FACE OF THE BUGBEAR

(New York City, New York)

Bugbears exist... they come out to frighten children when parents force them to turn out the lights!

And, when your children scream for you in the dead of the darkest night, you better answer them!

Bugbears love to drag children into the dark void of fear and ignorance created by stupid parents!

You don't want your children taken by the monsters, then keep your silly ignorance to yourself... and deal with your own personal bugbears!

ESM

AND THE DEAD SHALL FEED THE ALIENS

-- And now... 

Back to the supernatural/horror/science fiction part of the Horrorwalker World --

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Apathy...

World War...

Paranoia...

Spree Killings...

International Terrorism...

Global Warming...

The Self-destruction Of A World's Civilization!

All this derision is not unnoticed...

And The Dead Shall Feed The Aliens!

QMM

AND THE DEAD SHALL FEED THE ALIENS

(A Secret Location In The Utah Badlands) 

The aliens in the hover ship are from the distant planet known to earth humans as Alpha Centauri Bb.

They are obviously exponentially more intelligent than human beings... and humans are their food.

They have secretly hunted humans for their meat for centuries... harvesting the fringe extra among them.

Their new strategy for harvesting humans -- let them self-destruct and kill themselves as they harvest the remains before they rot in the streets!

QMM

SHOCK (AN EXCERPT)

Oh the horror, be perceptions different from your own.

Two people see the same thing two different ways.

But in the end,

From both perspectives,

What you witness is still a... Shock!

TNM

SHOCK  (AN EXCERPT)

(Florissant, Missouri)

My answer to your e-mail is -- what shocks you may not shock me!

My anger may be stoked by a branch different than yours!

My fire is stirred by the memories I have struggled with since 1959!

My world of the 1960's and the '70's was a boiling sun of confusion, fear, and death.

TNM

WHAT SAYS A COUPLE OF "BROTHERS" ON THE STREET

Two friends,

 Standing on the street corner on a cool Fall evening,

Are talking about the past hellish week in California.

It would behoove you to listen to...

What Says A Couple Of "Brothers" On The Street!

RLJ

WHAT SAYS A COUPLE OF "BROTHERS" ON THE STREET

(Ward 6, Washington, DC)

Theophilus Jones was telling Taj Jefferies, "Man, what a fucked-up week last week has been!

"We both know that life for the brothers out here is a horror show... in the light and the dark.

"I always thought when the white murderers with the illegal, or illegal-legal guns, started killing white people... then America would change!

"But, what chance does a "brother" have in these streets when the white lawmakers stop giving a fuck when THEY, and their kids, are being murdered where THEY work and play?"

RLJ

A JUSTIFIABLE SUICIDE

If a politician who has the power to do something,

But actually does nothing to prevent the deaths of many,

He he complicit in the deaths of the many?

And if that man continues to do nothing year after year,

And people continue to die because he continues to block help,

What would eventually be a suitable punishment for that man?

Perhaps... A Justifiable Suicide?

ALM

A JUSTIFIABLE SUICIDE

(Washington, DC)

Republican Senator Baxter Enis Smith, from N.C., sits in his darkened Washington, DC office.

Acid tears roll down his shamed face... he cannot take his own kind of evil anymore... as he watches the California carnage.

He is a blatant anti-gun control blocker... paid and bought by millions of dirty NRA dollars... who, today, has had an epiphany.

With his .38 in mouth, gagging through sobs, the guilt for turning his back on all these dead Americans has driven him to suicide... and one less negative vote on the Senate floor.

ALM

THE ARSENAL NEXT DOOR

Horror lives next door to terror!
What does that mean?
Ask Jason Jones what the Police Sergeant told him about...
The Arsenal Next Door!

EKM

THE ARSENAL NEXT DOOR

(Oakland, California)


Look officer, I never knew the horror that my next door neighbors had a potential explosive arsenal in their apartment.
I really thought all those weird smells coming through the walls was, perhaps, woodworking.
I saw the pipes and the bags of stuff and the foot traffic... but, hey, it was not my business to be nosey.
Now, you tell me I can't go back home for days until the FBI finishes its investigation... talk about terrorism?

EKM

THE SWEET SMELL OF GUNPOWDER

The dead man is lying prostrate on the asphalt!

The assailant stands over him, gun in hand!

And lingering in the air around them is...

The Sweet Smell Of Gunpowder!

RLJ 

THE SWEET SMELL OF GUNPOWDER

(Chicago, Illinois)

Cradle your handgun in both hands, extend your arms, fire off a round and... swoon from the gunsmoke!

Suck the smoke into your nostrils... feel the chemicals coat your cilia to assault your nose neurons.

You are not insulted by your perceptions, in fact... you love the danger of the sweet smell of gunpowder.

And you don't give a shit about the man you just killed because the thrill of the smell of the kill is all you ever wanted!

RLJ

ROT GUT RADIO DESTROYED ANOTHER MIND

Isolation!

Deprivation!

Degradation!

Deterioration!

Insanity!

Impetuous!

Equals: Rot Gut Radio Destroyed Another Mind!

RLJ

ROT GUT RADIO DESTROYED ANOTHER MIND

(Brunswick County, North Carolina)

In a small shack built among the dense pine trees and the tall saw grass lives a dangerous man.

He's a deranged loner... a ticking time bomb... and few people in Brunswick County knows he exists.

How he amassed an arsenal of rifles, pistols, swords, body armor and explosives is anyone's guess.

After today's all day binge of Rush Limbaugh-like crazy talk on the radio, he packed up his shit and drove up to Raleigh on a mission from god!

RLJ

THE HOMICIDAL DEAD (19) -- DRY SKIN

The dead walk the earth as homicidal cannibals who eat the living!

The living have mostly been murdered and consumed.

I, Jason Allen Cranston, am alive.

My mission in life,

Before I am eventually cornered and bitten,

Is to find somebody else alive... anybody!

JAC

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Every living organism has the potential to evolve.
Can a complex organism like a zombie evolve?
Obviously, it can happen.
Just ask the dead man walking...
The one over there with the...
Dry Skin!

THE HOMICIDAL DEAD  (19) -- DRY SKIN

(Petersburg, Virginia)

Marshal Ryan has a very big problem being a very rare thinking member of the homicidal dead.

He has sickeningly watched his body decay as his skin dries out and his insides putrefy.

'This is just a bad deal,' he has thought as he contemplates his lack of a future... and his fresh flesh cravings.

Again, he slathers the creamy  +Eucerin on his skin... perhaps he won't lose another finger today!

ELL